Dissipate

What do we mean by dissipate?

To break apart or attenuate to the point of disappearing: synonym: scatter. intransitive verb

To drive away; cause to vanish. intransitive verb

To spend or expend intemperately or wastefully; squander. intransitive verb

To use up, especially recklessly; exhaust: synonym: waste. intransitive verb

To cause to lose (energy, such as heat) irreversibly. intransitive verb

To be attenuated and vanish. intransitive verb

To become dispelled; vanish. intransitive verb

To cause to pass or melt away; scatter or drive off in all directions; dispel: as, wind dissipates fog; the heat of the sun dissipates vapor; mirth dissipates care.

To expend wastefully; scatter extravagantly or improvidently; waste, as property by foolish outlay, or the powers of the mind by devotion to trivial pursuits.

Synonyms Dissipate, Dispel, Disperse, Scatter. These words are often interchangeable. Dissipate and dispel, however, properly apply to the dispersion of things that vanish and are not afterward collected; dissipate is the more energetic, and dispel is more often used figuratively: as, to dissipate vapor; to dissipate a fortune; to dispel doubt; to dispel uncertainty. Disperse and scatter are applied to things which may be again brought together: as, to scatter or disperse troops; or to things which are quite as real and tangible after scattering or dispersing as before: as, to gather up one's scattered wits.

To become scattered, dispersed, or diffused; come to an end or vanish through dispersion or diffusion.

To engage in extravagant, excessive, or dissolute pleasures; be loose in conduct.

To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish intransitive verb

To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation. intransitive verb

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. transitive verb

To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. transitive verb

To drive away, disperse. verb

To use up or waste. verb

To drive away, disperse.

To use up or waste; squander.

To vanish by dispersion.

To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.

To be dissolute in conduct.

When you cause a feeling or an emotion to disappear. Urban Dictionary

To scatter or consume wastefully Urban Dictionary

Behaviorally, cognitively, and emotionally incapacitated due to excessive drug use. Urban Dictionary

When something is completely quantum un-entangled from the world around it. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to dissipate:
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Words that rhyme with dissipate:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe dissipate:
such, modern, fresh, soul, last, past, locomotive, accursed, anesthetic, other, cold.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective dissipate:
heat, energy, power, anger, stress, resources, structures, assets.

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